Apparatus And Method For Reducing Eccentricity And Out-of-roundness In Turbines - Patent 8152446

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION The subject matter disclosed herein is generally related to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11/548,791, entitled "Turbine Case Impingement Cooling for Heavy Duty Gas Turbines," filed Oct. 12, 2006.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The teachings herein relate to reducing eccentricity and out-of-roundness in a turbine, and, in particular, to techniques for controlling cooling. 2. Description of the Related Art Air impingement cooling has been used to manage the casing temperature of small gas turbines and to reduce and maintain the clearances between rotating blades and accompanying interior casing surfaces. One problem for air impingement coolingsystems on gas turbines is the ability to achieve a uniform heat transfer coefficient across large non-uniform non-standard casing surfaces. On small gas turbines, small impingement holes and short nozzle to surface distances are normally applied. These factors produce the required higher heat transfer coefficients on the casing. One detrimental impact of applying small impingement cooling holes is the need for operating with high differential pressure drop across the holes. This results in therequirement for undesirable high cooling air supply pressures which negatively impacts net efficiency. Impingement cooling has been applied to aircraft engines as a method of turbine clearance control. However, the impingement systems used on aircraft engines cannot be used in some turbine applications. The systems applied to aircraft enginesuse air extracted from the compressor as the cooling medium. It is not feasible to use compressor extraction air on some other gas turbines because the design heat transfer coefficients require cooler air temperatures. For example, some other gasturbines have a significantly larger, non-uniform casing surface that requires an intricate manifold design as compared to aircraft engines. Also, the casing thickness and casing thick